Bavaria holds two worlds of practice in one state: large offices under Munich competition, and a great many small owner-run ones across the region. Both show too little of what they can do. We are based in Hanau, a few kilometres from the state border.
What film and video production does for you
A contemporary showcase for your projects and your craft
Recruiting with a strategy behind it
References that convince clients
Our clients and partners
Between Munich cost pressure and alpine topography
Around Munich, architects and specialist engineers plan under a cost and land pressure that dictates every schedule. Across the wider region the picture is shaped by small practices, often led by the same family for generations. Their reputation carries beautifully within a thirty-kilometre radius and not at all beyond it.
Then there is a Bavarian particularity: how a building may look is in many places not the client’s decision alone. Local design statutes, historic town centres and a living timber tradition prescribe roof form, material and proportion. Those who are good at this deliver results worth showing. Then they photograph them on handover day with a works mobile.
What we produce for Bavarian practices
Concept, shoot, edit, grade and sound all happen in house. We arrive with a finished plan.
Practice portrait
Shows how your practice thinks, not only the buildings you have finished. It becomes credible through the people who design and calculate, not through a founding year.
Succession portrait
At a handover between generations, clients, partners and staff want to know what stays. Both generations speaking in one film answers that faster than any letter.
Recruiting film
Around Munich, practices lose young planners to industry and technology firms. Gloss does not help against that. A film in which the office speaks plainly does.
Architectural and object photography
Where design rules shape the result, the finished building is your best argument. We photograph it at the right time of day, from the same shooting day.
Let’s talk about your project in Bavaria
Tell us where you are and what is coming up. If the journey does not add up, you hear it first.
Let’s get goingComparable work
Everything we have filmed for the building sector so far was made in Hesse. We put that in writing rather than claim a Bavarian reference. What transfers is the scale: owner-run practices and firms whose principal stands in front of the camera.
XQUADRAT
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JUBEL | RING
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BADTKE Edelstahl
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LOKAL. Bruchköbel
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REWE LAPP
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Unverhüllt
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LORENZ ENERGIE
Learn moreWhat we stand for
- Honest and transparent communication
- Creative media campaigns from a single source
- A precise balance between creativity, real-world use and realistic economics
What sets us apart
Cinema quality. Costed with a clear head.
Film industry standard meets a lean, vertically integrated production setup. That is what makes quality affordable. What others outsource at a premium has long been part of our team. It saves time, it saves money, and you can see it in the result.
Stories that stick.
Cinematic DNA in short formats. We condense messages down to what matters. Precise, emotionally charged and built on real narrative craft. Advertising that isn’t just watched, but felt.
From Gen Z. For every audience.
We speak today’s visual language – fluently and by conviction. From elaborate corporate films through lean video productions to high-energy content for social media, we know exactly what earns attention. Made by a young team that grew up with the “cloud”. Effective for every audience, every format, every platform.
QUALITY and SERVICE are written in capitals here.
No project is finished until both we and our clients are happy with it. That is why you will find no small print limiting the number of revisions. We are convinced that clear, transparent communication, a structured briefing and the shared ambition to create something lasting and convincing make clauses like that unnecessary.
Services at a glance
Our focus is outstanding audio-visual film, video and photo production for the construction, architecture and building services (MEP) sector. But we think beyond the camera. Through our established network of experts and partners we open up additional touchpoints for your company: from corporate websites and digital project presentations through trade fair appearances and print to targeted LinkedIn marketing for the construction industry. Together we work out which channels and formats reach your clients, investors and future specialists most effectively – and we bring the right specialists to the table to deliver the project to our quality standard.
Travel: Bavaria is not one place
Lower Franconia is effectively on our doorstep. We reach Aschaffenburg faster than some locations inside Hesse, and Würzburg and Schweinfurt are comfortable day trips. No overnight stay and no significant travel cost there.
For Nuremberg, Regensburg, Munich and everything south of that, none of this applies, and we do not pretend otherwise. We travel the evening before so the day can start at seven. Accommodation and mileage appear as their own lines in the quote.
Frequently asked questions
Still have questions? Take a look at the FAQs or simply get in touch with us directly. Whenever you are ready, we look forward to hearing from you – and we will get back to you within 24 hours! Because SERVICE is written in capitals here.
Let’s get goingWe are a small practice of eight. Is a film worth it at all?
If you compete for commissions or for young staff, yes. Small practices gain precisely because people can see who works there. Large offices tend to look interchangeable on camera; small ones do not. The scope follows your size, not a standard package.
Our designs have to follow local design statutes. Does that work on film?
It works well. The constraint is the task, and making something of it is your achievement. A client grasps that faster in pictures than in a written explanation. We show the setting, the constraint and your solution side by side.
Is it worth bringing a team from Hesse to a project in the Allgäu or Upper Bavaria?
For half a day of filming, honestly not. We will tell you so in the first conversation. It starts to make sense when several things come together in one place: an active site, the finished building, two or three people to interview. Then the journey stands against months of material.
What should we expect this to cost?
Usually between a mid four-figure and a low five-figure sum. The variables are the number of shooting days and the number of versions. For locations south of Nuremberg, travel is added as a clearly named item. We give you the range on the phone.
Building and design in other federal states
We produce across Germany. These states have their own pages with what is particular to each:
Good to know
Terms that keep coming up in quotes and conversations, explained briefly:
Your contact
Maximilian Priess
Managing Director and Director
Cinema has fascinated us since childhood – not just as a medium, but as a total work of art. The interplay of every craft involved, the precision in the detail, the passion behind every frame: those are exactly the values we took as the foundation of Mastlicht Media, and we keep building on them every day. Seeing how this medium, combined with our craft, creates lasting value for our clients is what excites me anew every single day.
Let’s get in touch!
Let’s simply talk it through.